George Meyer Quotes

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• If there's reason for hope, it lies in man's occasional binges of cooperation. To save our planet, we'll need that kind of heroic effort, in which all types of people join forces for the common good

  George Meyer

  Lying, Future, Men

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• There's a built-up tension in religion, and if you can release it, you'll get a huge and satisfying laugh.

  George Meyer

  Laughing, Release, Tension

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Experience as much as you can and absorb a lot of reality. Otherwise, your writing will have the force of a Wiffle ball.

  George Meyer

  Writing, Reality, Balls

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• I was brought up Catholic and, of course, I strayed and repudiated it. That's a painful thing to go through, because you have to look back and realize that you wasted a gigantic chunk of your life.

  George Meyer

  Catholic, Looks, Realizing

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I want to be tolerant of other people's beliefs. I have wonderful friends who are religious, and I don't want to say that they're dimwits. They should certainly be able to pursue what works for them. I'm just saying that it doesn't work for me and I don't want to pretend that it does.

  George Meyer

  Religious, Wonderful Friends, People

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I don't know what the universe is all about, but to me, nothing is gained by slapping a God sticker on it. It has never been a comfort to me to believe there's an all-seeing eye in the sky.

  George Meyer

  Believe, Eye, Sky

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I guess I started to realize that being an agnostic was such a wimpy position.

  George Meyer

  Agnostic, Realizing, Position

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I tend to look at the world more from Voltaire's perspective. Incidentally, if you haven't read Candide lately, it's a fabulous book. It's riotously, laugh-out-loud funny in a way that no Shakespeare comedy will ever be.

  George Meyer

  Book, Laughing, Perspective

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Advertising is a conscienceless industry, populated by cowards and idiots, that warps and drains everyone. It eggs on the worst in all of us. If I could eliminate either advertising or nuclear weapons, I would choose advertising.

  George Meyer

  Eggs, Coward, Weapons

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• You have to respect people's suffering. To deny that the world is unfair and painful for most of the people living in it would be false and judgmental.

  George Meyer

  People, Suffering, Would Be

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Men often struggle with their attraction to other women. They don't quite understand why they have to be with the same woman forever.

  George Meyer

  Struggle, Men, Forever

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I have nothing but respect for the purist who won't work for the pharaoh. But I'm not that strong.

  George Meyer

  Strong, Pharaohs

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I don't like the antagonism that most religions have for science, and freedom and, frankly, individuality. I do like the Dalai Lama.

  George Meyer

  Individuality, Antagonism, Lama

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I'm not religious. I do have a baby - a four-month old girl - and that's a religion in itself.

  George Meyer

  Girl, Baby, Religious

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• The people who seem to have a lock on power get swept out in a couple of years. So it's naïve to keep swinging at the same targets over and over. It took me a long time to realize, but most of the shackles that I flailed against were just illusory.

  George Meyer

  Couple, Years, Long

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I have a deep suspicion of social institutions and tradition in general.

  George Meyer

  Tradition, Social, Institutions

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I resisted parenthood for a long, long time. But having a daughter has given me a sense of hopefulness that I didn't have before.

  George Meyer

  Daughter, Long, Parenthood

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• The only rule was that the stuff had to be funny and pretty short. To me, the quintessential Army Man joke was one of John Swartzwelder's: 'They can kill the Kennedys. Why can't they make a cup of coffee that tastes good?' It's a horrifying idea juxtaposed with something really banal-and yet there's a kind of logic to it. It's illuminating because it's kind of how Americans see things: Life's a big jumble, but somehow it leads to something I can consume. I love that.

  George Meyer

  Coffee, Army, Men

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• Clever is the eunuch version of funny.

  George Meyer

  Clever, Versions, Eunuchs

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• I prefer to linger on the periphery before making a commitment.

  George Meyer

  Commitment, Periphery

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I love that Voltaire was so willing to shock his readers with arbitrary cruelty. And I can completely relate to it.

  George Meyer

  Arbitrary, Shock, Cruelty

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• For me, marriage is a grotesque, unforgiving, clunky contrivance. Yet society pushes it as a shimmering ideal.

  George Meyer

  Grotesque, Ideals, Unforgiving

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• It was peculiar to be standing so close to him. He's just a man, but still, what a thing to be Neil Armstrong!

  George Meyer

  Men, Peculiar, Armstrong

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• The most oblivious people are often the happiest.

  George Meyer

  People, Oblivious

  The Believer Interview, www.ericspitznagel.com. September 1, 2004.

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• I'm a pessimist, but I have many painstakingly applied coats of optimism.

  George Meyer

  Optimism, Coats, Pessimist

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. September 1, 2004.

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